both arguments seem pretty anecdotal to me.
I watch them in preseason when they push the ball up the floor both units. Last night right back to the half court majority of the time. Right now the 2nd unit can't play half court offense to much thinking how to initiate it especially with Mario last night. That unit has to get the boards and run for now until they get use to the half court stuff.
to log an assist the guy you pass to has to make a shot....we shot in the mid 20s percentage wise...that's going to reflect in the assist numbers
Last year, 60% of field goals leaguewide were assisted. Blazers were below that, but still averaged a little over 54%. Last night--13 assists on 36 made field goals, or 36%. The Blazers would have had to have converted 10 of those "missed assists" just to get up to a 50% assisted figure.
Plus Michael Porter Jr. > Anfernee Simons
He did drive though, he had a bunch of attempts near the basket and just couldnt get them to fall. He has never really gotten calls, some of that may be on him, but to say he didnt drive is incorrect.
Not to pile on, but keep an eye on Whiteside. Dude barely even makes contact on screens.
That's why I mentioned Zach Skal and Hassan.....they all set weak screens ..Mason Plumlee gave his three pt shooters half and hour to shoot last night...great screens
That's the one thing I'll definitely miss about Meyers.
If a player goes to set a screen and the defender goes and double teams your teammate with the ball before you set the screen, should you continue with that screen or slip it?
Yeah Michael Porter Jr was amazing last night.
This wasn't just last night, and it wasn't just the obvious slip plays. He barely touches guys when he actually intends to screen, and when he does, he has been getting called for moving screens. Hardly ever creates enough separation to give Dame a passing lane. It needs work.
I agree the screens are not creating much seperation, but I think they're are a few issues with chemistry and the screeners, the guards are also going to early causing silly fouls on the screener, the screeners also need to do a better job of wide.
This isn't an isolated situation. He's had history with poor screening, and didn't really acknowledge that he was the problem before.
Hassan has been a "slip" guy his whole career though. If teams double Dame out of the pick and roll it doesn't matter if you have the best screen setter of all time on the floor. I'm pretty confident that you've watched the playoffs the last couple years, right?
I guess but it was Goran Dragic and Dion Waiters heh.
. I noticed it in the preseason too, if it doesn't get better as they play together there is certainly a problem there.
I'm not sure it's that easy to get Hassan more shots, he's not exactly nimble of foot and his range is like 3-5 feet? They did a good job of trying to get him the ball when he slipped and he did an alright job of getting the ball to the corners when someone rotated between him and the basket, just guys weren't hitting shots. The real issue to me is that his screens just weren't creating much separation for the guards when they would try to penetrate from the screen.
Denver knows us. They know how badly we rely on pick and roll. They went all out to stop Dame and CJ. When teams do that we need to trust the other guys on the floor. Honestly the bigs (except Tolliver) all did their job last night for the most part.
